microwaves
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Sharp’s New Alexa-Powered Microwave Is Even More Confusing Than Amazon’s
When Amazon released a cheap microwave with built-in Alexa integration, most of us scratched our heads for a second and then quickly moved on. But now Sharp has created its own microwave powered by Amazon’s digital assistant, and somehow it’s even more confounding than the original.
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This Microwave Oven Is The Size Of A Thermos
There’s a reason the microwave in your kitchen is a heavy brick: it uses a magnetron and vacuum tube technology that dates back to World War II. But since then, the technologies involved have been vastly improved (see mobile phone towers) and a company called Wayv in the UK is finally using them to shrink…
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Watch The Scary Power Of A Microwave Oven Burning Things
Video:Yowza. Here’s a crazy rigged contraption that uses microwave energy from cavity magnetron to generate plasma and burn the heck out of things faster than you can cook a piece of toast. We see it squeeze out plasma in a lightbulb, shatter glass and make basically anything burn. It’s a neat exercise to show how…
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Real Life Scientist Suing Over The Microwave Scene In American Hustle
Remember that scene in American Hustle when Jennifer Lawrence’s character sticks some metal in the microwave? It starts a fire and Lawrence’s character dismisses the entire technology, claiming that it zaps the nutrition out of food. She even has an article to back up her claim. Now the real life scientist who was quoted for…